From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 28 10:41:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alto.i-cable.com (alto.i-cable.com [210.80.60.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F59037B71F for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 10:41:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lkthomas@hkicable.com) Received: from thomasq1rx10yf ([61.18.16.156]) by alto.i-cable.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA00579; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 02:41:44 +0800 (HKT) Message-ID: <001101c0b83d$141fd440$9c10123d@thomasq1rx10yf> From: "Thomas Lau" To: "Linh Pham" Cc: References: Subject: Re: New gigabit cards Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 18:43:19 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="big5" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linh Pham" To: "Thomas Lau" Cc: "Gregory Maxwell" ; Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 2:22 AM Subject: Re: New gigabit cards > On 2001-03-29, Thomas Lau scribbled: > > # OK, if I want to buy a new fiber NIC, How can I connect them? > # I need fiber manual and connection kit please > > You will need a switch (or a router, or a hub if you can't afford the > others) that supports the same type of connector that is on the network > card and runs at the same speed. For example, if your gigabit Ethernet > card is 1000BaseTX, it is copper based and requires a switch that > supports 1000BaseTX and cables that are at least Cat5e compliant. > > Since you are looking at fiber gigabit Ethernet card, you will most > likely need to get a switch that supports the SC connector (the one with > the two square connectors per port, and most likely multi-mode SC-to-SC > fiber cable. > > You can buy the cables or make them yourself. > > -- > Linh Pham > [lplist@closedsrc.org] > > // 404b - Brain not found > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > is it have manual to make it myself ? also, where can I buy the upgrade kit? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message